The Club's Results
Cambridge 99's Regatta, May Term 2017
2nd men's VIII (2nd division)
| 2nd men's VIII | |||
| in Black Prince | |||
| bow | Dohun Lee | 2 | Tom Wilson |
| 3 | Edward Erelt | 4 | Aaron Lewis |
| 5 | Preeyan Parmar | 6 | Robert Shearme |
| 7 | Christopher Elsby | str | Jiri Kucera |
Coxed by: Rachel Grewcock
Beat Clare M2 by not scratching, proceeded into the plate upon request in the heats and Lost to Emmanuel M2 by 1.5 lengths in the plate semi finals
Plate semi finals
Lost to Emmanuel M2 by 1.5 lengths
Lost to Emmanuel M2 by 1.5 lengths
I am adding a report because I think the result gives an unfair outlook of our crew's rowing at the time.
Emmanuel M2 had an extremely fast start, and gained about a quarter of a length on us at the beginning, but we had a powerful rhythm call after our wind strokes and began gaining back on them. However, we were maybe a seat down when our blades started clashing. After about 20 seconds of aggressive and continuous blade clashing, several of our crew (myself included) momentarily stopped rowing - while Emmanuel didn't. And we lost.
However, in the sparing we had just a week after this race, we proved ourselves to be the faster crew (despite having had 0 outings inbetween, while Emmanuel did), coming out on top on all 4 pieces we had.
Links
Full May Term 2017 Cambridge 99's Regatta results
2nd men's VIII Cambridge 99's Regatta results archive
